Nursing in other Countries 305 of these women have gone to English hospitals for their training; some to the United States. The courses under their direction at home are on a well- rounded three year basis and their pupils become highly proficient. Everyone who knows the Chi- nese women loves them warmly. Their characters are remarkably strong and self-reliant, and they take naturally to the woman movement. An interesting new development is the organ- ization of a Chinese Nursing School on a college basis. This school is connected with the Pekin Union Medical College and hospital which are be- ing supported by the Rockefeller foundation and staffed largely by American doctors and nurses. It is planned to follow the standards of education and instruction found in the most progressive American schools. The ancient medical learning of India and the beautiful hospitals of the Buddhists had long dis- appeared, when the first missionary India efforts were put forth to sound the almost hopeless depths of human suffering of the poor of India. The distorted medical and obstetri- cal practices were such that not only the poor, but even women among the rich, suffered terribly when sickness befell or childbirth occurred. Mission hospitals founded mission schools for native women 20
